Dr. William Hodos NACS Seminar: Dr. Dani S. Bassett

Network Cognition in a Curious World

In this talk, I will describe a notion of network cognition that manifests in how we engage with the curious world around us. To do so, I will draw together three lines of inquiry in mind, brain, and computation. I'll begin with a line of inquiry into connective curiosity ("How do we connect bits of information as we walk about the world?"), then move into graph learning ("How do we build larger network models from those connections?"), and finally end in network control theory ("How is that model building constrained by the brain's own connective structure?"). The studies discussed will span experiment, model, and theory, and bridge human behavior, neural representations, and computational science. Together they frame a formal investigation into network cognition and motivate future inquiry. 

Dr. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. William Hodos NACS Seminars are free and open to the public.